New Book Celebrates Claudette Colbert

The life and times of the lively, lovely actress Claudette Colbert have been chronicled in the new book Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty. It's the first new book on the actress who starred in such classic films as It Happened One Night in two decades, and focuses on her career and her interest in commercial art and fashion.

Written by Bernard Dick at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the book's title also made want to look up the beautiful old Byron poem.

She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies
and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.